Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 03:55:46PM -0400, Adam Aube wrote: >> I am running Woody (with all security updates) on a Dell PowerEdge 2650. >> After running fine since being setup several weeks ago, today sshd >> suddenly died mid-connection. >> >> I was able to run sshd manually from the console in debug mode, but >> attempts to start sshd normally failed. This message appears in auth.log: >> >> sshd[17803]: fatal: daemon() failed: Success > > Your /dev/null's probably broken. It should look like this in 'ls -l': > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Jun 8 2002 /dev/null
That indeed was the problem. /dev/null was an ordinary file, not a device node. Thank you, Colin. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
